Stop The Checkpoints will meet in Port Angeles on Saturday, April 3rd, at 2:00 pm. Due to Library furlough of workers for a week due to budget cuts, the meeting will be held in a home near the Library. Please email info@stopthecheckpoints.com or call 360-452-7534 for the meeting location.

Topic will be: What real immigration reform should look like and how we can achieve it! Articles previously posted below provide some views on this topic. Bring ideas for action plans.

The Stop the Checkpoints Committee will hold two showings of “Farmingville”, a documentary which puts a human face on the current debate around “guest worker” and other proposed immigration reforms. Filmmakers Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini spent a year in the small Long Island town making this 2003 Sundance award winning film.

Farmingville (80 min. English/Spanish w/English subtitles) portrays the chilling hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in the small town of Farmingville, Long Island, which catapult the population and the immigration issue into the national headlines, unmasking a frontline of the new border wars – suburbia.

This bilingual, verité documentary allows many players in the story – long term residents, day laborers, elected officials, and advocates on all sides of the issue – to speak for themselves, offering a rare and intimate glimpse behind the headlines. The Stop The Checkpoints committee is working to start a productive local conversation about immigration policies and civil liberties, particularly as they play out on the Olympic Peninsula.

Showings, which are free and open to all, will be held at 6:30 pm Tuesday, December 1 at the Sequim Library and at 2:00 pm Saturday, December 5 at the Port Angeles Library. For information about the event contact Lois Danks, Stop the Checkpoints Coordinator at 452-7534. For more information about the film visit the website www.farmingvillethemovie.com.

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Links to videos!!!

Click on the "Videos on Immigration" link in the dark red title bar above for these videos -------
Highly recommended! – some are available online for free, others at public libraries or for purchase online. Please request that these videos may be made available at your local library!
Precious Knowledge,
Lost in Detention,
Harvest of Empire,
Harvest of Shame & Harvest of Shame Revisited,
The Secret Government/ Bill Moyers.